Speeches by president

I congratulate you, Mr. President, on your election. I wish you good fortune and all of us a successful session. I should also like to thank Ambassador Udovenko...

Mr. President, your election to the presidency of the thirty-sixth session of the General Assembly represents recognition of your unquestioned qualities as a ve...

53. Mr. President, on behalf of the Japanese delegation, I wish to extend my heartfelt congratulations to you on your election to the Presidency of the twenty-f...

Let me begin by welcoming Switzerland, our western neighbour, as a full member of the United Nations and her first participation in the General Assembly after ...

1. Mr. President, I cannot begin my statement without first extending to you the warm congratulations of the Mauritanian delegation on your election at, Presid...

My first words are to congratulate you, Sir, on your election and to tell you how gratified the delegation I have the honour to lead is, seeing you preside over...

It gives me great pleasure to extend to you, Sir, our sincere congratulations on your election to the presidency of the fifty-eighth session of the General Ass...

Allow me to begin by congratulating you, Sir, on your election to your honourable post. You may count on our full support and dedication to your goals. You, Si...

On behalf of the Government and people of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, I extend our heartfelt congratulations to Mr. Choudhury on his unanimous and well-d...

It is my pleasure at the outset to congratulate you, Mr. President, and the friendly Republic of Maldives on your election as President of the General Assembly ...

I wish at the outset to extend to you, Sir, and to your friendly country, the Czech Republic, warm congratulations on your election to the presidency of the Ge...

Every session of the General Assembly since 1946 has been described as a crucial one. This perhaps proves nothing except that the United Nations since its birth...

Your election to the presidency of the General Assembly, Sir, is a tribute to you and to your country, friendly Bulgaria, which has risen to the challenges of...

Unfortunately, I was not able to be present when the election for the office of President of the General Assembly took place. I should like, therefore, to take ...

Allow me to express, on behalf of the people and the Government of El Salvador, our most sincere congratulations to the President on being elected to conduct t...

I should like first to offer my warmest congratulations to you, Mr. Kerim, on your assumption of the presidency of the General Assembly at its sixty-second s...

23. I want to start by congratulating the distinguished Foreign Minister of Guatemala on being elected President of the General Assembly and its twenty-third se...

At the outset of what I have to say to the General Assembly I must refer briefly to the speech made yesterday by the representative of the Union of Soviet Socia...

It gives me great pleasure to congratulate Mr. Vuk Jeremić and his friendly country on his assumption of the presidency of the General Assembly at its current ...

Mr. President, I wish to express my warm congratulations to you upon your election to the presidency of this fifty-fourth session of the United Nations General ...